Today is World Vasectomy Day!
Snip to Save the Earth As a proud recipient of a vasectomy in 1997, a year after the birth of my second... Read More
Earth on Edge of Losing its Coral Reefs?
The warming seas are cooking the coral (well actually, bleaching it) Healthy coral reefs support a mind-boggling variety of marine life. California’s... Read More
Morgan Stanley's Head of Emerging Markets Doesn’t Understand Numbers, Reality
The Wall Street Journal just can’t get enough of the ‘birth dearth’ …Or of immigrants…or of denouncing ‘anti-immigrant hysteria’ Last year, in... Read More
Finding Space—and Solitude—Where No Man Has Gone Before in an Ever-More Crowded Country and Planet
PDF Download: caps_issues_finding_space_solitude_in_an_ever_more_crowded_world_2015.pdf By Leon Kolankiewicz, CAPS Senior Writing Fellow October 2015 Years before I became persona non grata in the Sierra... Read More
Solitude Sought in Nature Threatened by Overpopulation and Overcrowding
Years before I became persona non grata in the Sierra Club for my criticism of its leadership’s refusal to acknowledge immigration’s environmental... Read More
Gutting Family Planning Programs Will Only Increase Abortions
I was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Honduras for three years. Family planning and birth control were rudimentary at best in that... Read More
Grading the ProPublica Series ‘Killing the Colorado’ on its Population Coverage
Not as Bad as Most, Not as Good as It Could and Should Be We’ve said it before and we’ll say it... Read More
Mother Nature Drugged with Our Pharmaceuticals
In 1996, pharmacologist and wildlife toxicologist Theo Colborn, Ph.D. (1927-2014) published her landmark book, Our Stolen Future, coauthored with Dianne Dumanoski and... Read More
Pollution Defiles Air Quality in California’s National Parks
I was so excited to be making my first-ever camping trip to Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Park. My wife and I would inhale... Read More
Fabled Joshua Tree May Disappear from National Park Named for It
Drought, Climate Change Take Their Toll Up in Montana, the glaciers are melting rapidly in Glacier National Park due to a warming... Read More